the idea that the CPC didn’t incarcerate as many people per capita is because of the famine. This is nonsense.
How is that nonsense? What was the per-capita incarceration rate of the population who died in the famine? What was the per-capita incarceration rate of the population that didn’t die in the famine?
There is probably no data for that, so we can’t know for sure, but I showed that in the U.S. a large famine would result in a lower incarceration rate because poor people would starve at a disproportionate rate, and poor people are also incarerated at a disproportnate rate, so that would reduce the overall rate per capita. This doesn’t necessarily apply to the situation in China, but I don’t think it is nonsense with no foundation in logic.
How is that nonsense? What was the per-capita incarceration rate of the population who died in the famine? What was the per-capita incarceration rate of the population that didn’t die in the famine?
There is probably no data for that, so we can’t know for sure, but I showed that in the U.S. a large famine would result in a lower incarceration rate because poor people would starve at a disproportionate rate, and poor people are also incarerated at a disproportnate rate, so that would reduce the overall rate per capita. This doesn’t necessarily apply to the situation in China, but I don’t think it is nonsense with no foundation in logic.